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Sports and Outdoor
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t's been a superb summer for sport all ends up, even
without any significant input from the British Isles or
Ireland. Euro 2008 was a huge success and as a
footballing spectacle, one of the best tournaments I can
remember. The organisers did a fine job from what I could see,
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the the competing nations provided an absolute feast of
remarkable, heartbreaking and thrilling football.
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Wimbledon was also wonderful. Can you remember a better final, both for drama and
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the sheer quality of the tennis? Games like that inspire people to start playing
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themselves, and we can all benefit from that. Wilson had cause to celebrate the
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tournament too, as Laura Robson, the 14-year-old winner of the Junior Girls
tournament, plays with a Wilson [K] Blade 98. She's the first British player to win a
singles tournament since 1984, and looks a real prospect.
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Of course, it's one thing seeing people become inspired by great athletes and
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wonderful wins, but it's another entirely for the rain to hold off for long enough to
actually get to play some bloody tennis.
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Roll on Autumn.
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